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A14
Guardian www.guardian.co.tt Monday, November 23, 2015
SHARLENE RAMPERSAD
Health Minister Terrance Deyalsingh says he plans to meet
with local soft drink manufacturers early next year to encour-
age them to produce reduced-sugar drinks.
"The government to which I belong is saying the days for
building more hospitals to amputate more legs are over," Deyals-
ingh told participants in a Princes Town Rotary Association s
Diabetes Awareness Walk yesterday.
"It has to go back to primary healthcare and preventative
medication and that is going to be the focus of this administration
over the next five years---preventative medicine and personal
responsibility."
Deyalsingh said that the answer is not legislation but "coming
up with alternative drinks."
The minister, who admit-
ted that he was a poster-boy
for diabetes, urged parents to
stop setting their children up
for obesity and diabetes.
"No government in the
world can come into your
home with a big whip and
tell you what to eat and
drink, it boils down to infor-
mation and something called
personal responsibility," he
said.
Deyalsingh said too many
citizens are digging their
graves with their teeth by not
paying careful attention to
what they eat.
Princes Town MP Barry
Padarath, who also took
part in the walk, revealed that he is diabetic.
I lost my father to diabetes when I was just 16, so
I know the impact this disease can have families,"
he said as he appealed to parents to change what
they feed their children.
"I implore you, you have heard that diabetes
affects 15 per cent of our population and that is
why we have to continue to sensitise and educate
ourselves. We have to change the paradigm of what
we feed our children, not only in schools, but in our
homes as well."
President of the Princes Town Rotary Club Ronald
Gobin said: "We are concerned as an organisation
about this disease which has become an epidemic
around the world. According to the International Dia-
betes Association, 450 million people worldwide suffer
from diabetes.
"In T&T, about 14 per cent of our population
suffers from diabetes, that s one in eleven
people."
JENSEN LA VENDE
A 37-year-old Tacarigua man will
appear in court today charged with
nine fraud offences, as well posses-
sion of marijuana and possession of
cocaine for the purpose of traffick-
ing.
He was held at his home last
Wednesday by officers of the North
Eastern Division Task Force led by
Sgt Cornelius Samuel.
Police said the man was in posses-
sion of machines used to make fraud-
ulent passports, credit and debit cards,
local and foreign driver s permits and
food badges.
They said the suspect, a deportee
from the United States, might be part
of a larger international organisation
involved in identity theft and drug
trafficking.
The police said that the suspect
operated with a high level of sophis-
tication and had been able to produce
almost undetectable fraudulent doc-
uments at his home.
He was arrested after Samuel and
a party of officers, including Corporals
Jacey Small and Hector Quashie and
Constable Stephon Edwards, acted
on a tip-off and visited the man s
home at around 10 pm last Wednes-
day.
The policemen found a large quan-
tity of completed fraudulent items
including local driving permits, driving
permits for various states in the US,
local identification cards, RBC and
First Citizen and Citibank credit cards.
They also found marijuana and a
large quantity of cocaine packaged to
be shipped as well as credit card read-
er/writers, card embossment
machines, card printers, photo printers
and several laptops.
Deyalsingh
urges preventive
action against
diabetes
Identity
theft
suspect in
court today
Terrance Deyalsingh
The minister, who admitted
that he was a poster-boy
for diabetes, urged parents
to stop setting their
children up for obesity and
diabetes.
"No government in the
world can come into your
home with a big whip and
tell you what to eat and
drink, it boils down to
information and something
called personal
responsibility," he said.